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bill: good day, everybody, and good morning a judge orders a retrial for an american accused of killing her roommate. while studying in europe. the high court reversing the acquittal of amanda knox in 2011. it could be a whole new story. good morning. i'm bill hemmer, here in "america's newsroom." jamie in for martha jamie: the doigs coming

down. i'm in for martha maccallum. the judge ordered her former boyfriend to return and be tried. bill: what is this all about now? amy kellogg is live in london. she lives in washington state now. will she be forced to go back to italy for a retrial, amy? >> reporter: bill, the reason that this new situation has come about not because the court has come up with reasons for which it thinks that amanda knox is suddenly guilty, there is more evidence, basically the court wants to look at everything all over again. this case has been plagued with so many technical problems from the beginning. amanda knox issued a statement that it was painful to receive the news that the italian supreme court decided to send my case back to revision when the prosecution's theory of my involvement in meredith's murder has been revealed to be unfounded and unfair. bill, she will not have to go back to italy to stand trial. she can be tried in the absentia. if she was convicted again,

italy would likely seek the extradition to italy. at that point analysts say woulr but we simply don't know that to be the case. bill: why was it thrown out in the first place, amy? what changed? >> reporter: originally their conviction, amanda's and rafael sollecito, their conviction was overturned because there were so many problems with the evidence. primarily two pieces of evidence and meredith kircher's bra clasp. the dna had been improperly admitted. it was contaminated in many ways this trial was seen as an embarassment to the italian system. that is the way it was portrayed in the press. all of this because the prosecution wants to see it looked at again will be reexamined. amanda knox will not necessarily have be there. the trial may get going in the summer in florence this time. bill? bill: amy kellogg live in london that story.

a story sill developing at the moment. knox's lawyer was talking about the retrial earlier today. >> she issued a statement that it was very painful to receive that difficult news. we were certainly hopeful the supreme court would simply affirm the ruling of the appellate court. let's be very clear here. there was never any evidence in this case. whatever evidence was reviewed was considered absent, nonexistent, unreliable or simply inact rat -- inaccurate. jamie: let's give you context t unfolded in 2007. when amanda knox and her boyfriend was arrested four days after her roommate, meredith kircher was found did. the in december of that same year both were found guilty of murder and sexual assault. knox watt 26 years. her boyfriend got 25. in october of 2011 they won their appeal, both

acquitted. that brings us up to today when italy's highest criminal court overturns the acquittal. ordering a new trial. she could get double jeopardy which we don't have here. bill: meantime the parents of amanda knox, receiving a trial of their own. they were charged with defamation after italian police officers claimed their reputation was damaged when amanda's parents told a newspaper that their daughter was physically abused during police interrogation. a hearing was canceled last march after some witnesses failed to show up. here is what they had to say on the day amanda was allowed to go home. >> this has been a very long four years but we couldn't have made it threw it without all of you people out here that supported us. >> it is because of the letters and the calls and the, just amazing support at that we received from people all over the world, especially here in seattle we've been able to endure. bill: that was 2011.

you watched all that live coverage here on the fox news channel when the decision came down. we will talk with an international attorney and chair of the criminal law committee of the international bar association about all of this and what happens next in this case. jamie: to washington now where lawmakers are battling over the budget and there's a new report that raises questions about travel costs associated with the obama administration. finding a more than 320,000 dal bill spent just on limo service in paris for staffers that were traveling with vice president biden. peter doocy live on that in washington. peter, great to see you. how much was the vice president actually driving around in paris? >> reporter: jamie we went back to the official schedule it shows on sunday, february 3rd, after spending the weekend in germany the vice president and his wife, dr. jill biden touched down in paris. the following day, monday february 4th, they met with u.s. embassy staff and their

families in a closed press event. then the vice president traveled to the presidential palace for a meeting with french president francois hollande. that was it for france. two events on the schedule in the morning and early afternoon before the bidens flew to london. the contract listed online is ringing in at $326,000655. that includes all the travel for everyone on the trip build to the limousine company, based in paris. it was awarded before the final cost of transportation for the trip was tallied. it represents the most that could have possibly been spent on travel there, jamie. jamie: obviously there were other charges too. we're in a budget crunch. what does the state department has to say about all this? >> reporter: just a few minutes ago we heard from the state department one of the officials explained in the statement that these costs are nothing out the ordinary. they are in line with high level travel across multiple

administrations. the contract costs cover entire range of support including accomodations for military, communications secret service staff and other support professionals. security experts are required to travel in advance of the president's or vice president safety and security are not negotiatable. we saw earlier this week another story about half a million dollar hotel bill for the vice president in london. the reason for that high amount, it is safety. jamie. jamie: peter doocy live in washington. thank you so much. that report saying charges like this don't seem out of the ordinary are they really necessary? we'll have a fair and balanced debate on that coming up. bill? bill: we are just about an hour away from the supreme court taking on california's voter-supported ban on gay marriage that is case that could redefine the meaning of marriage in america. spectators have been lining up there for is today. shannon bream outside the court.

where it is loud this morning. what is going on with that crowd, shannon? good morning there. >> reporter: good morning, bill, as far as the eye can see there are thousands and thousands of people here. they are rallying representatives from both sides of it issue here. the interesting thing the line for a seat to get inside, cuing up on thursday night. in the meantime here in d.c. we have had snow. we had sleet. we had below freezing night after night. but here's the deal. a lot of folks standing in line for the seats today were paid line holders. it is a thing here in d.c. where people will pay somebody to save a seat for them, safe a seat for line on a important case on the hill where there are limited seats. you ask how much people are being paid by the hour, these seats are estimated to cost $6,000 to pay for someone to stand in line. they will look at proposition 8. for a little while in california gay marriage was legal. voters went to the polls overwhelmingly passed

proposition 8 which amends the california constitution that a marriage was to one man and one woman. they will be here for the arguments today. here is robin tyler. >> i would argue on the merits, if they can vote to take rights away from us when we were in the california constitution, considered a suspect class which means a recognized minority, then they could say okay we'll take, vote to take rights away from anybody. and so i think the ability to vote and take rights away from people is terrible. >> reporter: of course a lot of focus will be on justice kennedy. they have to get five out of the nine to strike down proposition 8. bill: how are advocates for traditional marriage hoping to sba the justices in this argument? >> reporter: they also feel very confident. they say marriage traditionally is very unique relationship. it is the foundation of civilized society. they think there are a lot of koppelling arguments to save the justices worth

saving that and not redefining it. they think the confident that the justice will think twice about doing this, making such a big change in the foundation of america's culture. brian brown here for the national organization of marriage. >> reporter: i don't -- >> i don't think justice kennedy i don't think a majority of the justices will want to launch another culture war and respect the right of voters to decide their future, decide something as simple it take as man and woman to make a marriage. >> reporter: something unique the court is doing, they rarely do, release oral arguments audio you will hear the justices in their own voice. the decision is expected by june. bill: that is rare. we'll wait for that. thank you, shannon. enjoy the megaphone. >> reporter: will do. bill: from washington. jamie: thank you so much, shannon. new fox poles show the change in number of americans who support legalizing the same-sex marriage but people remain divided nevertheless. there is new fox poll showing 49% favor legalizing

it, a significant shift since the question was first asked in a fox poll a decade ago. at that time only 32% said gays should be allowed to marry legally. when they were asked a narrow he question whether same-sex marriage is a right guaranteed by the constitution. 53% of the voters say yes, it is. bill: we'll wait for that later today. it will be interesting to hear audio arguments. it is rare. you think about bush v. gore in 2001 and sometimes we hear them and sometimes we don't. but it is race. we're hear them today. jamie: fascinating to hear both sides. bill: we're just getting cranked up in "america's newsroom." a new warning for north korea again. what they are threatening this morning. john bolton is on that. jamie. jamie: what employers are planning that could have a major effect on your health care costs. bill: a triple stabbing at a popular retailer and we'll tell you what happened and how other shoppers helped

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jamie: fox news alert now and some good news for homeowners. u.s. home prices in 20 cities according to a new index have risen 8.1%. that is on average because in phoenix they have risen as much as 20%. that is the highest increase in home prices since 2006. those numbers for a year period ending in january, bill. bill: reports of north korea now, nuclear threats out of north korea targeting the u.s. saying it placed long-range missiles into combat mode aimed at numerous western targets. ambassador john bolton, former ambassador to the u.n., fox news contributor, with me now and good morning to you. more words or more than that? >> well i think the threat to use missiles against

targets in the united states like alaska, hawaii, or bases like in guam or okinawa is probably remote as of this moment but make no mistake, the north koreans are getting closer to making those threats a reality and their ability to hit closer targets in japan or south korea can't be dismissed. i think the most immediate concern is with all this belligerent talk there is a risk of north korea taking some provocative action, sink a south korean ship as they did a little over a year ago or do something that could get us quickly into a larger confrontation. this is a very dangerous regime. it is not rational in our terms and even though their more extravagant threats are not realistic you have to take this kind of thing seriously. bill: pick up on the point you make, they have acted on those threats especially when it comes to the south korean neighbor at the 38th

parallel, japan off to the east. they talked about guam, they talked about hawaii, certain western american cities. we show you on the map as soon as it pulls up here. whether you apply truth to this or not, mr. ambassador it is fair to say they can not take a nuclear warhead and put it on a rocket but they can take a long range rocket and perhaps aim at anchorage, seattle or more likely honolulu, hawaii, or guam. is that the more likely scenario when it comes to the united states? >> i think that is possible. people say well why would they do anything so foolish? the united states would retaliate overwhelmingly. it would be a disasterous mistake for south korea to do it. that is only if you think north korea's leadership is just as rational as we are. it is called mirror imaging. it is a real problem at the state department. you're a reasonable guy. you think the people on the

other side of the table are reasonable. not necessarily. this is kind of hitler in the bunker mentality pervaded the north korean leadership over the years that should really worry. it shows why the continuation of the regime itself in north korea is a problem that we need to be addressing, really just as much as the nuclear capabilities. bill: we addressed this too in the past 10 days or so. this is a long-range missile. animation behind us here from north korea. if that were to launch, we have taken more anti-missile batteries and moved them now to the west coast. initially they had been planned. they were canceled by the current administration. now they have reversed course. would, would that serve logic in order to prevent a possible hit on the western part of the u.s.? >> well, i think we should have done it. we should have deployed these missiles in 2009 when they were originally scheduled. there was great fanfare for the announcement they won't

actually be deployed until 2017. it is intended to protect innocent american populations for threats by a rogue state. we need a more robust national missile defense capability than the obama administration is planning and as we need as our military has done overflying north korea recently to have is the capability to respond. to try to deter this irrational regime but it's not a place we should want to be. i think our objective here should be the elimination of the north korean regime, the peaceful reunification of the peninsula. we said that is our policy since 1945. we need to act on it. bill: one more point here. they shelled an island, killed four people. they're responsible for killing 46 sailors when they sank a south korean naval ship. back to your first answer, you believe that action is more likely than any at this point in time? >> in both the cases south korean government even

though under a relatively conservative took no retaliation. opinion is the lack of retaliation. if there is another incident like that, killing south korean military personnel or civilians i think the pressure for retaliation would be high. that's how a miscalculation on north korea's par get us into something very, very serious, with american troops there on the peninsula. bill: thank you, sir. john bolton. mr. ambassador from washington. thank you. 20 minutes past. jaimie? jamie: bill, thanks. the fbi and police are together in a desperate search for a missing college student. but they have a new lead they're working on. we'll tell you about that. bill: a new sheriff in town from the largest city ever put under state control. why unions could be in the cross-hairs. >> there are a lot of tough decisions that are here for the city. whether that means, with mr. orr doing it by himself or if that means with us collaborative, i'm hopeful this is partnership we're able to do it collaboratively.

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bill: now we mentioned the charge for a vice-presidential limousine for about a day and a half in paris a moment ago with peter doocy. the state department just giving our fox team in washington the following quote. these costs are nothing out of the ordinary. they are in line with high level travel across multiple administrations. the contract costs cover the entire range of support including accomodations for military, communications, secret service staff and other support professionals. security experts are also required to travel in advance of the president or vice president. safety and security are not negotiatable. all this came to light when a bill went public for more than $300,000 for a limousine charged to the vice president and his wife in paris. that was on top of various

reports for a one-night hotel stay in london and paris respectively as well. that is the word from the u.s. department of state. we will debate all this next hour with mary katherine and bob beckel. they're bringing the hammer. jamie: how about detroit? there big changes going on there and protesters are rallying outside city hall. over a new state appointed a emergency financial manager, kevyn orr. he is arguing that taxes away their rights. that is what the people are saying. oar is extending an olive branch to detroit's mayor and city council on his very first day on the job. listen. >> there are a role for city council. they are elected officials. i am not. i'm an appointed official the they have their ear and pulse to the community. that's why they're elected and i anticipate them participating in the process permitted by law. jamie: there is lot making news. detroit is the nation's largest city ever put under state control.

more than $14 billion in long-term debt. mike tobin live in detroit to tell us more about that. mike, what can you tell us? >> reporter: at the direction of governor snyder that emergency financial manager kevyn orr has begun what amounts to hostile takeover of detroit. you mentioned protesters gathered downtown, about 100 of them. upset kevyn orr will have the ability to override the city council who they voted. upset that he will make major slashes of the city budget. he is up against a $327 million budget deficit. you mentioned there 14 billion with a b the, 14 billion in long-term debt. >> we can do this. i will have participated in one of the greatest turnarounds in the history of this country. >> reporter: orr has the advantage of not being elected so he can afford to be unpopular. there are five other municipalities in michigan that are under emergency management right now. one of those emergency managers told me the city council and mayor may not

like it but they have only themselves to blame. jamie? jamie: you know what, mike being unpopular is one thing. under siege is another. which is it for kevyn orr? >> dynamic is created where the mayor and city council really have only one option, to comply or oppose. for the most part they oppose because that's all they're empowered to do at this stage of the game. you look at the city budget and the prediction municipal jobs en masse, the unions, afscme in particular is responding with a lawsuit. >> whole thing was a sham for the state to come in and take over the city of detroit. that is what is happening and to break the unions. >> reporter: now pontiac, michigan is one of the cities under emergency management. the mayor of pontiac told me has absolutely no authority whatsoever but he says, only an appointed official could make the kind of cuts that are necessary. they would be political suicide for an elected official. jamie? jamie: interesting story

there in detroit. thank you, mike tobin. bill: one of the headlines of the morning is this. a stunning court reversal for the american student, amanda knox but can she be forced to go back to it tally? international lawyer, chair the law committee of the international bar association is on that case in minutes. jamie: how about this? a space capsule making its way back to planet earth? the precious cargo, we're going to show it to you, what was on board. ♪ . the new guy is loaded with protein!

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jamie: well this was really startling news that happened earlier this morning. a judge ordering that an american college student accused of murdering her roommate while she was in school in italy should be retried. knox responding this morning, quote, it was painful to receive the news that the italian supreme court decided to send my case back for revision when the prosecution's theory of my involvement in meredith's murder has been repeatedly revealed to be completely unfounded and unfair. she and her former boyfriend were released back in 2011. she spent four years behind bars of the after an appeals court threw out her conviction slamming the prosecution's handling of both the evidence and the case. here is what she had to say then.

>> what's important for me to say is just thank you to everyone who has believed in me, who's defended me, who supported my family. i just want my family is the most important thing to me right now and i just want to go and be with them. jamie: so is her freedom. she got the heck out of there back to seattle. meg strict letter, an attorney and chair of the international bar association's criminal law division. good to have you here. >> thank you. jamie: if you represented amanda knox right now, what would you do? >> right now the good news is amanda is safe at home in the united states in seattle. the good news she can stay there. what i would do is fight and fight hard to keep her there. she can stay there as we go through all the different appellate issues at this point. meaning if the italian supreme court wants to retry

this case, in other words, send it back to the trial division and retry it and if it is lost and if they appeal that decision, only then can italian courts say, hey, bring amanda over here. only then can they fight extradition at that point. we have years and years to wait as all the legal wrangling goes on. amanda knox thankfully can stay in seattle versus an italian jail. jamie: the reports are there is no new evidence. that the prosecutor, although she was acquitted decided to retry the case and they can do it in absentia without her ever appearing in court. >> correct. jamie: who does she need her side here in the united states? does she need the administration? does she need the state department or does she just need counsel or just ignore it all together? >> she can't ignore it. the case and trial can be tried this absentia. in other words she can be here this united states. when the administration will

get involved were the extradition would be ordered. that i tell you is a couple years off if it were to happen. understand this is not a very good case to begin with. it was acquitted on appeal. so i don't think it is going to happen. if it were to it would be a couple years from now because they have to return it back, try the case on appeal. excuse me, try the case at trial stage. then win it and then win it on appeal. but only then can they order extradition. jamie: we have not reviewed, you and i, the entire file or case or all the evidence or lack of evidence or as they said, possible sab toning of evidence. how would we feel right now as attorneys and also as americans if it were the other way around? if an italian citizen come here, this happened, they went back to italy. do you think we would feel the same as sending an american back into that courtroom? >> what happens, thankfully we have relations internationally with all different countries that we have extradition treaties with and what not.

there are international treaties meant to treat all citizens fairly. right now we're letting the italian law go through what they need to do. but i hear what your question is, which is how would we feel about an american citizen being over there or vice versa, italian citizen being treated here? that's why we have treaties so human beings are treated fairly. ultimately we will fight it if all through that she loses. jamie: okay. >> i think as we all know it is not a very strong case. hence why she is in seattle, not in an italian jail. jamie: okay, but bottom line the laws in italy, think about it. if she is acquitted here, any defendant acquitted here can't be tried a second time. it is called double jeopardy. we don't have it. you're an international lawyer. is italian law just screwy that way? >> no, no. she was convicted. remember she spent four years in jail. jamie: but they threw it out. >> the conviction was returned, over -- exactly.

that can happen here too. if the prosecution wants to fighting is but the thing you're talking about is the double jeopardy clause. if they lose on the trial level here in the united states, you can't retry it over. you're acquitted. no double, they have double jeopardy here. doesn't happen. understand the italian courts, screwy is strong word i don't think --. jamie: different. >> same way. it is just different. jamie: thanks for confirming that, meg. the great to meet you. thank you so much. big story today. >> thank you. bill: what a stunner that must have been for here waking up today. we're only hours away from a spacex capsule that splashed down in the pacific with special cargo from the international space station. phil keating is on that live in miami. is everything on track here, phil, good morning? >> reporter: good morning, bill. the spacex dragon is on track for successful return to earth slowly orbiting as we speak and will go into the deorbit burn two hours from now. earlier this morning, nasa

tom washburn used big row bottomic arm from the space station station and after three short trajectory burns, she was headed home. >> sad to see the dragon go. performed her job beautifully. heading back to her lair. wish you all the best for the splashdown today. >> reporter: the private spaceship spent the past three weeks in space. it is bringing back 3,000 pounds worth of research results, science experiments and hardware. just under three hours from now dragon should splash off of, baja peninsula about 250 miles. when it does that will conclude spacex's third successful trip up to the space station. bill: that is remarkable. is spacex going to skip the whole splashdown thing all together or not? >> reporter: that is the plan here in the next several years. the whole model for spacex on cheaper spaceflight is reuseability. eventually the plan is to have the dragon capsule leave the space station, descend down-to-earth and

then drop and land safely on a landing zone on the ground, eliminating the need and cost of an ocean retrievallal. earlier this month, spacex successfully showed exactly how it will happen when one of its rockets made a 24 story hop up, hovered and gently touched back down. by 2015 spacex founder elon of course musk hopes to have actually people inside the coop suls going up to the space station. the u.s. lost that ability with the retirement of the space shuttle fleet. the only way up there for astronauts and cosmonauts is the russian soyuz capsule. it takes off thursday. nasa has a news conference about that on thursday. bill: phil keating live. the markets have been open about nine minutes of trading. we were down yesterday but okay so far today. jamie: we're making it up. bill: demand for u.s. manufactured goods surging last month. but a gauge of planned business spending is down.

a bit of mixed news. some good, some bad but what is happening in the time any island country of cyprus still has the world baffled. it is not a bailout anymore but it is a bail-in they will take money from those with a certain amount of money in the bank accounts to stay afloat. go figure this one out. that is the plan on the table. banks are still not open. jamie: folks were not too happy about it either. bill: who would be. jamie: we'll have a report from there coming up there are new concerns here at home about spiraling health care costs after a new report lays out what some employers are planning to do. oh, this one is going to of a affect you. mom? who's mom? i'm the giants mascot. eat up! new jammin jerk chicken soup has tasty pieces of chicken with rice and beans. you know the giants don't have a mascot right mom? [ male announcer ] campbell's chunky soup. it fills you up right.

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>> no, no, no. jamie: the woman's husband was stabbed multiple times recovering. police say. she stabbed him because he abused her and had a drinking problem. bill: tough to watch, huh? there is knew study showing nearly 60% of the employers are planning to penalize workers who do not get regular health assessment exams. we first talked about it about a week ago after cvs, the giant drugstore chain began telling its employees it would have to take part in an annual exam and give the company personal information, or pay a fine, several hundred dollars possibly. karl rove, former chief advisor, deputy chief of staff to president george w. bush and fox news contributor. good morning to you and welcome back. >> good morning, bill. bill: we'll get to cvs in a moment. you bought your whiteboard because you've been tracking health care premiums since obamacare was signed into law. what have you found?

>> well, this is important. this is why cvs is trying to do this. the law is pushing up the premiums that are being paid by employers and their workers. and, companies as a result are looking for every piece in the law that gives them a chance to try to restrain that growth. in 2009, before the affordable care act the average, average cost of a health insurance for family of four was 13,375. 2010, it jumped to 13,770. a 1.7% increase. that is the year the law got passed. the next year it had a $103 premium increase, jumping to $15,000. last year it was 672, up 4 1/2%. now remember, companies now are paying an average, the companies pay most of this cost. they're paying an average of $11,429 out of that $15,745 that is being, the total cost of the insurance. and remember, the president said, pass the affordable care act and your premiums

by the end of 2010 will drop $2500. instead, they have gone up nearly $2,000. so there is about a 4500 delta for every company in america above what president obama said this law would cost. bill: why is that happening? if it was sold a different way and reality is different on the ground? >> the reality is look if you mandate everybody have health insurance the cost to health insurance will go up there will be more demand for health services. if you mandate all kind of requirements, require every insurance policy to have this kind of coverage and that kind of coverage and this kind of thing, no lifetime limits, no lifetime limits how much you pay out, this all drives up the cost of insurance the cost of insurance has gone up. went up 1.7% the year of 2010. the year of its passage. the year after it went up nine 1/2. year after that 4 1/2%. these premium increases caused every company to

scour the law for every single opportunity they might have to restrain the growth. this is particularly for companies like cvs have a younger healthier workforce ironically enough because of a provision in the law called community rating which will drive up premium costs for companies like this. bill: let me pause you there. community rating is in the law, right? that is in obamacare, right? what is that. >> right. it says essentially you are limited how much you can raise the premiums for older, less healthy workers. and that means that in essence, younger workers are going to pay more for their insurance than they otherwise would in order to subsidize insurance coverage for older workers. for example, next year, an estimated 80% of workers under the age of 30 are going to see an average of a 40% increase in their premiums. those that are age 30 to 39, are estimated to have 31 increase in their premiums and less increases the older you guess. the perverse outcome of

community ratings. if you're cvs sitting there with a lot of young workers running cash register and stocking shelves as an entry level job, what happens their insurance rates will rise more dramatically than say manufacturing companies with an older established workforce. bill: just cut through all this now. terrific information there. but what you're saying that the law is forcing companies to spend more money in order to spend that money they're trying to make it up on the back end? >> right. bill: part of the way you do that you get your employers to go out get their cholesterol checked and get their heart checked and show the proof of that examination to the employer. and in turn companies like cvs would do what then? how does that save money. >> it is even deeper hope. it is even deeper hope yet not proven. companies readily admit they don't know how this experiment will pan out. the hope what you do, you will cause people to have a healthier lifestyle and thereby your insurance costs. there will be lots of things

done by companies in order to deal with the law. "the washington post" has one that says, health care law could boost hiring of the temps. if you have a temporary worker who is only working 31 hours or less a week, in lieu of say, a full-time employee,, you're not responsible for giving them health care coverage and the cost is boone by the rest of the taxpayer. we'll see a lot of stuff like that. bill: with regard to cvs that is wellness review, take it or receive an annual penalty of $600. we'll see whether or not it stand from the company. that was a headline from a few days ago. karl, thank you we'll look into this. i guess we'll uncover more as time goes on. thank you. >> well as nancy pelosi said, we had to read the law to figure out what was in the law. now we're finding out. bill: now we are. thank you, karl. here's jamie. jamie: bill the fbi has joined police in a desperate search at this hour. a college student vanishing without a trace and now it is 10 days ago. the new lead police are

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jamie: the fbi now joining the search for a missing college student but that doesn't mean you can't help. so neil interest. tripoti is missing for 10 days. his family members say the 22-year-old, also known as son any was on leave from brown university. they haven't seen him and they want him back. joining me is his sister and his brother ravi. this is brave for you to do. obviously important if anyone can help we want to get you in touch. the police say they have a new lead. do you know what it is? >> they, we actually have

been fortunate enough to meet with the police regularly and, as of right now they said because of the exposure of this case they have been getting actually numerous leads. they're following up on every single one and doing their best to trace every lead down jamie: can you share any of those that might have recognition of it or some familiarity where they can provide more information? >> they have been receiving phone calls, nonstop, they haven't received any specific, they haven't notified us of any specific lead that's changed, you know the window of him leaving or create ad new location to look for him yet. jamie: the search now expands. the fbi gets involved. when you think of that, you think possibly could be movement where maybe he's

not in rhode island anymore and it has expanded to boston. i understand, new york, connecticut, philadelphia. did your brother have any connection to any of those states? >> he did. he had family and friends in a number about states though he did leave on foot we assume. his bicycle and his wallet and i.d. were all left. so his ability to move would be on modes of transportation that did not require photo i.d. there are friends and family in all of the northeast. that is the main reason why the search has expanded. of providence is very small town. we haven't found him yet here so we're looking here. jamie: we want to help you in that. we understand he was on leave from school, ravi, but was still living with his roommates from brown. why was he on leave? does he have any medical needs right now that you're concerned about? >> he did take leave originally because he has been suffering from depression and he has been trying to figure out, you know, exactly what he wants to do in life, where he

wants to go. he was fortunate to develop a very strong group of friend while at brown. so he decided to stay here in providence, live with them as they finish their schooling, as he, did a number about of volunteer jobs and other community-based engagements and really, was trying to sort out exactly where he wanted to go next. jamie: as many people try to do. sangeeta, he left a note it has been reported. can you tell us anything about that? any clues in there might help? >> he left a short vague note. police have gone through everything and fact we're 10 days in and still have word despite intensive investigation. again indicates that we just don't know. and the police don't know. there pursuing every option in their investigation, and we're just really hope he stays somewhere. he is very cold kid.

he wears three winter jackets and a hat. it has been very, very cold outside and we're really very worried and appreciate all the viewers help in looking out for him. jamie: anyone out there that has any clues or information, no tip too small, call 911. thank you to both of you. we're praying for you. >> thank you so much. >> thank you so much for your attention. jamie: of course. bill? bill: we'll be right back. 1200 calories a day. carbs are bad. carbs are good. the story keeps changing. so i'm not listening... to anyone but myself. i know better nutrition when i seet: great grains. great grains cereal stts whole and stays whole. see the seam? more processed flakes look nothing like natural grains. you can't argue th nutrition you can see. great grains. search great grains and see for yourself. to help support a healthy tabolism try new great grains protein blend in cinnamon hazelnut orhone.

bill: 10:00 here in new york. there are new concerns of impending financial disaster as thousands take to the streets in the tiny eastern mediterranean country of cyprus. they're upset about the terms of a bailout package that taxes certain bank deposits. welcome to a brand new hour of "america's newsroom." they're still trying to figure this thing out. i'm bill hemmer. welcome to you, jamie. jamie: bill, thank you. banks in that troubled country have been closed since march 15th. all of the two largest banks

were supposed to open today. there are temporary measures placed on transactions when they do reopen to prevent a run on deposits, people grabbing their money out. it could happen. the business owners say the lack of available cash is already hurting business. >> before tuesday, we are not having money in the market. so everyone is crying. as far as i can see, so i hope the banks soon open, open soon. jamie: greg palkot streaming live for us had cyprus. greg? >> reporter: jamie, we're standing in front of one of the banks that was supposed to be open today. my cam ran man to zoom beyond me and show you the fact of life here. it is closed. it is empty. all banks have been delayed. they're opening now set for thursday. but by that time folks will have had no access to banks, online banking electronic transfers, for amazing astounding 12 days. can you imagine if you were in that situation?

atms if they have cash in it which is rare have a limit about 100 euros, about $10. the reason? officials want restrictions in place -- $130. they want to prevent a run on the banks. head of biggest banks quit in the last 24 hours because of the terms of the situation. the government will investigate why this whole financial mess did happen. there is a lot of blame to go around, jamie. jamie: greg palkot. what is the mood with all the folks? still very unhappy, can't get their money? >> reporter: you can kind of imagine. the mood here is angry, nervous. upset. they're waiting for this to resolve itself out on the streets today. there were students, they're worried about their future. the slowdown in the economy here is just as big of a fear. we talked to one fellow at this bank. he can't believe it. he is worried about his money. he is worried about his salary. another big fear and in europe, could the tactics

used here, could they be used elsewhere especially that controversial approach to seize assets, private bank accounts, to help pay for the government rescue? e.u. officials today were scrambling to say this is a unique situation or a one-off as they call it but analysts and markets are not too sure. one more about it of uncertainty to add to the global economy. back to you. jamie: a huge one, although the markets are looking pretty good here today. thank you so much, greg. bill: so many european countries have big issues. five countries have needed bailouts from the european central bank and the imf. along with cyprus, it includes greece, spain, ireland and portugal. even the strongest european economies are in a slump. germany, the united kingdom and france all shrinking in the last quarter. the entire eurozone is losing a huge numbers of jobs. a record 19 million people now unemployed. back in our country

lawmakers battling how to deal with the debt crisis on the hill. this year alone the federal government will run a budget deficit of $845 billion. are there any programs that could be cut to save money? doug mckelway live on the story, live in washington kicking off on what to cut, our new series here. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, bill. almost every president in the last 30 years tried to shrink or make the government more efficient. >> government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem. >> the era of big government is over. >> reporter: but, the government has just gotten larger. adjusted for inflation government spend has gone up from average of 882 billion spent every year in the 1980s, to 1.48 trillion in the 1990s to 2.44 trillion a year in the first decade of the 21st century. it is estimated government will have spent as much in the first four years of the

new decade as it did in all of the 1990s. nothing typifies the expansion of government as much as the growing wealth of the washington, d.c. area. seven of the 10 nation's richest counties surround washington. average federal worker salary and benefits stands at $126,000. another size of washington's growth, traffic congestion is the nation's worse. as the country suffered through layoffs and recession, washington home prices remained farrell stable. >> the congressional system is set up to spend money, not to save money. incentive for many members of congress to solve a problem is to create a program. >> reporter: with the creation of almost any government program comes a food chain of contractors, lobbyist, lawyers, special interests all feeding from a government trough that congress seldom let's a run dry. bill: that trough runs deep. you're looking at several programs that could be cut.

what have you found? >> reporter: tonight we'll start off with the general services administration. you remember that gsa scandal over $800,000 with a vegas regional convention with the gsa administrator sitting in a hot tub with a glass of wine? that is mere pittance. they're sitting on literally 77,000 vacant and empty buildings. each the vacant builds as a whole cost taxpayers $3 billion a year. $15 billion every five years. so we'll be taking a look at that and why gsa continues to sit on all those empty buildings. bill: big government. you might have a lot of targets, doug. thanks, doug mckelway is there in washington on what to cut. for more on this story head to our website, foxnews.com. you can answer your you died question on -- you decide question on ducks. your tax dollars. jamie: i saw that.

budget cuts grounding another blue angels airshow. officials in cleveland are worried what kind impact will have on their economy because hundreds of thousands of people always turn out to the see the u.s. navy fighter jets perform. some sad to see it all go. >> i've been going to the airshow since i was a kid. like routine of every year, i always go. like i love going with the family and enjoying the whole thing. this is family time for everybody. >> every year i'm waiting for the airshow. that is different when the angels not here. >> really amazing. i'm very, very frustrated about it. jamie: the airshow in ohio typically brings in more than $7 mr. to cleveland's economy. several other states raising concerns. every time you go, it's extraordinary. it is a great recruitment tool for the military too. bill: but for now it's not. jamie: not in cleveland. bill: meantime a major winter storm causing big problems in the midwest. triggering a partial roof collapse in kansas city. officials say no one was

inside that the pat of the building at the time but people in the rest of the building were evacuated. the snow also causing school closures, flight cancellations and dangerous driving conditions, on this the 26th of march. jamie: unbelievable this time of year because the heavy snow is also making the roads slick and it sent a snow plow right into a ditch. one of many accidents we're seeing. this one is in indiana. no reports thankfully of injuries. but the area got between six and 10 inches of snow. we hear it is not over yet. bill: it came through here too. you're thinking, april 1st is right around the corner. jamie: we're okay. bill: but it is springtime. time to turn the page on that. jamie: soon. we lost an hour's of sleep and we're freezing. bill: might get to 40 degrees today though, hot dog. those are some of the stories at this hour. time of record deficits and canceled white house tours. why the american people pay $300,000 for a limo. that is for 24, 36 hours

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whipped with a bat, with fists. he was getting, just tore up. and i think he deserved it. he injured a 16-year-old girl who was totally, totally innocent and had nothing to do with this. >> i thought it was horrible. why would someone come after a teenager. it is just terrible. and, i don't know, i couldn't believe it. i have felt like it could have happened to anyone. i was shocked and horrified it happened to her, someone so young. bill: that believe police came and arrested him. target released a statement saying quote, the safety and security of our guests and team members is a top priority for target. jamie: some new claims today that the u.s. may be fighting a proxy war with syria. sources telling fox news that the cia is providing intelligence information to the syrian opposition and they might be doing even more. american special-ops forces are training syrian rebel fighters in jordan.

general jack keane, retired four-star general, former vice chief of staff for the army, fox news military analyst, all that and more. general, good to see you and good morning. >> good morning, jamie. jamie: first i want to ask, is this a situation or are you completely convinced it is not and we're training rebels and we don't know who they are? >> i suspect we know who they are. i do believe the open sources that are reporting that the central intelligence agency has organized a training effort. i don't know if they are special-ops or actually involved in that or not. it is likely they probably would be. i think this is largely a good effort. i suspect they're training leaders and so who can go back and pass that training on, you know to their troops. i think it is not a large-scale effort. it is not something in of itself would be decisive but certainly it is helpful. jamie: they're sending special-ops whether cia or military to jordan by twoe to t.

we're putting a lot of resources in here and we're facing some serious budget cuts through sequestration. next week i will visit the pentagon to try to learn more about it. is this really where we need to be? >> well, absolutely. i think the syrian situation has been boiling for two years now and, the truth is we have not played a role in syria, i think it is part of our unstated policy of pulling away from the middle east. i'm gratified to see we're doing something. i think we need to do more to influence a positive outcome. certainly want to depose assad but we also want to have a government that takes over that will certainly be friendly to the region and not be a radical islamist government. jamie: at the same time, general, while we appreciate all the hard work that goes in, it has been eight months, as long as eight months that we're doing this to train these forces to fight assad. give them your report card. are you seeing any difference? because there is talk of chemical weapons and assad

is still slaughtering. are we getting the job done? >> great question. the fact is we have a stalemate. assad's forces control the major population centers and the coast. the rebel forces control a lot of the north and some of the east. the rebel forces do not have the combat power to lay siege to damascus and aleppo and force assad out because assad, when they try to do that, assad comes in with his air power and he literally crushes them. also the rebels do not have the logistics to be able to stay in an extend fight for very long. that means logistics and supplies. we're in a stalemate. if we want to change the stalemate i think two things have to happen. one, i believe the secretary of state is having these discussions now but i don't know it for a fact but i believe he is. that is to provide lethal aide to the rebels, anti-tank weapons and anti-aircraft weapons. i agree with senator levin and senator mccain who called for a no-fly zone to

shut down assad he is air power. if that happens then the tables truly turn. for that to happen, that means that a direct intervention by the united states in a war. jamie: i'm curious just a yes or no, diplomacy, dead? >> diplomacy is pretty much dead in terms of the military solution to the war. in terms of influencing the outcome post assad regime, very much alive. jamie: we have to get there first i assume. general keane, always so interesting to speak with you. thanks so much for joining us today. >> good to talk to you, jamie. bill: fascinating to see what the back channels are doing either to support assad on one hand or the rebel fighters on the other. that is very active in many countries. jamie: he is not weakening bill, at all. bill: we will see in time. almost a million and a half dollars a year to pay for the rest of your life. that is the reports of a case of county administrator. are retirement plans like

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jamie: remember that guy that impersonate ad pilot? now he is facing a federal charges. prosecutors are saying a frenchman who was wearing an air france shirt and carrying a phony i.d. card when he boarded a flight in philadelphia last week, they found him sitting in the cockpit. he became verbally abusive when he asked for i.d. now he is held on a million dollars bail. bill: fly this plane i will.

jamie: not so fast. bill: so imagine almost half a million dollars a year for the rest of your life, even after retirement. there is a county in california now said to be rewarding its top government administrator with a $423,000 annual salary. the "san francisco chronicle" says the alameda county official's base salary is $301,000. all right. she then receives $24,000 equity to make more than anyone else in the county. $54,000 of long jeflt pay for working there 30 years. annual performance bonus of $24,000. 9,000 for working on a three member land committee. $8300 her carl allowance. here is the kicker. when retirement comes, she still will be receiving more than 400,000 a year. melissa francis with me now, the host of "money". all about your money on the fox business network every

night at 5:00. stephen moore, writer for "wall street journal" down with us in washington, d.c.. >> bill, great to be with you. bill: start with the lady. hope that is okay. >> ladies first. bill: is there a way to make sense? >> should have started with steve because there is no way to make sense of this, long jeflt pay? $54,000? can you imagine a reward for being in the job for so long? these are astounding numbers. if you add it up has average lifespan, this is guaranteed for life, wouldn't you love that? add it up more than $9 million. if she additionally lives average lifetime. just astounding. nowhere in any of this literature or any of the reports on this is there anything that justifies, i mean, her salary. is she a tremendous, you know, revenue center for the county of alameda? are they the most profitable county in all of california, making money hand over fist? i don't know.

bill: how do you make that in retirement? >> amazing. bill: you've been out in california and writing and reporting on various problems not just in the counties but in the cities. how does this strike you? >> first of all i thought it was interesting, $24,000 for equity pay, so she is the highest paid person in the county? bill: how about 800 bucks for a car allowance? >> i think the average person who is watching the show, just rolls their eyes. say, how can a county executive get a 400,000 pension? that is almost unheard of in the private sector. bill, you asked the question how this relates to the overall situation in call -- california. as you know, melissa is covering this a lot. these cities across the state of california are very near bankruptcy. some of them bill, are already virtually in bankruptcy. places like san bernardino, places like vallejo. when i talk to the city officials, the county managers there, what they tell me, bill, the single biggest problem in terms of trying to match their

expenditures with their receipts and their tax receipts is the fact that these bad pensions that you've got, a huge amount of the budget. bill: guaranteed. >> as much a third to half of the budgets in these cities are enormously obese pensions they can't afford. bill: medical are list is a, what you think about jerry brown is trying to do to a degree, does this change any of that policy? >> all that can happen i think is a taxpayer revolt. bill: right. >> in these situations, these county administrators and officials of every type, steve was talking about all the different counties, stockton is in the same vote, they sit there and voted themselves tremendous pensions or whether it is health care allowances for the rest of their lives, and no one was too sort of stop it, but when you set politics aside it is about the math. there is actually at the end of the day no way to pay this over time. >> melissa, the good news about this story, if there is any silver lining there,

you're exactly right. the only way you stop this is with taxpayers. you know what? bill, there are several instances where taxpayers have voted on the ballot to put a clamp on these out of control pensions. so there is some movement in the right direction with people saying look, we want money to go for schools, not pensions. bill: is there anything in california that addresses perhaps renegotiating these contracts. >> bankruptcy. that is what keeps happening again and again. >> that's right. >> only way to deal with this and break these contracts is eventually to go into bankruptcy when the county can't pay for it. but this is one of the most egregious examples. it is good to hear reporting on it. kudos to the "san francisco chronicle" i think it was who started the outrage against this because a lot of times, i think a lot of people all around the country are living in counties where things like this are happening and they just don't realize it. this is where your property tax dollars are going. >> that's right. >> instead of into actual classroom to buy crayons and everything else for the kids

they're going to these very fat packages. equity pay. you see that in entertainment. most favored nations clause to make sure this person is paid more than anyone else? how could that possibly exist in government? bill: good work if you can get it. steve moore, last word, what do we need to understand what happens now to change it? >> it is not just california. that is the other piece of bad news. this is happening in illinois. it is happening in new york. it is happening in connecticut and it gets to the basic issue of fairness whether public employees get pensions twice as generous as taxpayers are getting in private sector jobs. >> steve moore, "wall street journal." melissa francis host of "money". >> 5:00, check it out. fbn. >> all about money. bill: thank you both. jamie: guys, thanks. 100,000 limo ride and half a million for a hotel. why the administration is under fire for the travel costs while the white house is still closed for tours. bill: how a group of

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bill: so the obama

administration now defending a 321,000 whaoerp of a limousine bill for vice president joe biden's staff in paris. the limb owes were used by the group while traveling in paris in early february. they were on the ground about 36 hours based on what we could tell right now. that did not include, however, the bill to fly mr. biden's own limousine to france, a standard security procedure of course. the state department told us a bit earlier today, quote, these costs are nothing out of the ordinary. they are in line with high-level travel across multiple administrations, safety and security are not negotiable. but these two are. bob beckel former democratic campaign manager, cohost of the five. mary catherine ham editor of hot air.com and fox news contributor. bob i don't think you're in a good mood.

>> thank you, grumpy cat i'll go ahead. the reason we should care about it is because any amount of scrutiny that the federal budget gets from normal people is good and healthy because they are frankly the white house invited more scrutiny by saying the only thing we could cut during sequestration is the public's access to the white house. the public thing goes, maybe we should look at how much they are spending on other things. bill: you move all this back to the sequestration issue. >> yes, i think they've invited more scrutiny to their budget. that's good, quite frankly. they are spending other people's money, scrutiny is good. bill: let me get robert g. pweblg he will on the record. >> i've been doing this show for six years. when you pick a topic let's figure out how we water board beckel. last week it was the easter egg roll. today it's the limousine bill

for joe biden. >> because you're so strong. bill: you worked overseas with white houses in the past. >> yes i have. bill: that's why we brought you on, not to water board you yet. >> hemmer, don't, please, don't. bill: to ask you why this happened. >> the answer here is if you go back and look at previous administrations this is nothing out of line. it's not just joe biden and his staff it's the media, it's secret service, it's an endless parade of people -- you know how this is put together, one of these lines of cars, for overseas travel for president and vice president, they are huge. bill: and the planning is extraordinary too, i get that. i just wondered the state department said safety and security are not negotiable and it should not be. what mary catherine's point is that ever since sequestration got in the bloodstream things like this continue to pop up and they make headlines because people were not aware of the price tag before. >> i think that is a good point

and con site, which is difficult for me to do. bill: indeed. >> but i will be a big man about this and do it. look, it does invite this kind of stuff. let's keep in mind sequestration is a serious issue, it's going to impact a lot of people, it already is, they are losing jobs and over time and we pick out these little things like easter egg rolls and joe biden's limousine, yeah they make good cop aoefplt when you take $85 billion out of the chicago in seven months it will impact people. i think it's a serious issue and i appreciate the opportunity to comment on it. >> we are not going to water board you. mary catherine i think he's a slate lee grumpy cat. >> that's what makes him charming. it's $300,000 business as usual i think it's good for the american people to know that $300,000 is business as usual and 136 rooms for advanced staff for several nights is part of how the federal government moves and does its business. now the question is, is all of that safety and security?

obviously i'm on board for that and we know it's going to cost this much money but i think it's healthy for people to know every time these guys move from location to location it's costing you 3 to ten times what an average american makes per year. it's a lot of money. bill: a hotel room $585,000. >> hires the things, it's easy in washington to say $300,000 is not a big deal. if you're making $30,000 a year as an american that's a pretty big deal. bill: i want to make this clear before bob says i'm making stuff up again. these are based on contracts. only certain hotels can handle a presidential delegation especially when it's in a northern capitol. go ahead, bob. >> first of awful i did the advance on a presidential trip to european i said in the presidential suite just to check it out make sure it was hr-frplt i stayed there a week. >> i think we could have cut thaebgs spence. >> it was tphaoeufplts i had a couple of good parties and it was a lot of fun and i was able to report back that it was suitable for the president of the united states.

if it was suitable for me. >> oh, my goodness. you requested for this hemmer, you asked for this. bill: even you at a time like this would say you probably could set a different example robert g. beckel. we'll see you at 5:00 this afternoon. easter egg roll is on monday. >> thank you for thi this topic. >> reporter: leaders from around the world are meeting at united nation. they are trying to reach a deal on arms trade. what is the controversy all about. >> reporter: good morning, jaime. critics fear that this new treaty will create international gun control and restrict american gun rise. it is called the united nation's arms trade treaty. 150 nations from around the globe are continuing and finishing up the draft negotiations on this treaty that would deal with 570 billion

dollars industry. it deals with tanks, helicopters back down to simple handguns. and the critics fear that it will impact american gun rights. they note that this treaty mandates a srafrt issues, such as mandating a list of weapons and guns. they fear that could be a gun registry, that it also sets up a control system by governments to control the transfer of guns and the importation of guns. the opponents say this all conflicts with the constitution's second amendment. >> the treaty isn't clearly limited to the international arms trade. there are points in the draft treaty where it seems it could apply to domestic arms sales and transfers inside the united states and that would raise very serious second amendment problems. >> the national rifle association strongly opposes this treaty. they have lobbied and spoken out here against it. they say it will restrict american gun rights, those here say that is not so.

>> reporter: i'm curious what do the supporters of the treaty have to say, what is their argument. >> they say it has to do with human rights. cartels, rebels, dictator ships, tere requireses around the wold are responsible for massacres and numerous deaths throughout elicit guns and arms trade in those nations. people died around the world from this every single day. they say this is really needed to try and prevent the flow of guns into conflict zones and they say that this will not affect u.s. gun rights as the opponents claim. >> this treaty is not about the domestic ownership of weapons in the united states. this treaty is about international arms transfers. it will have no impact, zero impact on domestic issues within the u.s. it has zero impact on second amendment rights. this treaty is about the international transfer of arms

and ammunition around the world. >> reporter: if it's approved as expected it goes to the president's desk has to be ratified by two-thirds of the u.s. senate and that is not at all likely, jaime. >> reporter: eric shawn live at the ooh noted nation. good to see you. bill: the american pastor being held in that brutal iranian jail, why his wife is saying she is seeing the most encouraging signs that she has seen to date. >> reporter: we'll talk to her live. an a ms.ing rescue, a hiker is trapped for days. wait until you hear who helped save his life. >> do you realize your dog and you saved his life? >> yeah. >> has that hit you yet? >> no, i mean that's what everybody say because this dog is fast.

bill: unbelievable video here on a bus in china. difficult to watch here. the driver is moving along when suddenly a huge lamp post goes right through his wind shaoefpltd diwindshield.

despite being nearly tossed out of his seat suffered a ruptured spleen but is said to be okay. >> and he saved everybody. jaime: speaking of saving someone the wife of an american pastor who is being held inside the most brutal iranian prison is saying now that shys very encouraged that secretary of state john kerry now calling for her husband's immediate release gives her more hope. he is sentenced to eight years on charges related to his christian faith in iran, joining us his wife. and their attorney. jordan you've been working so marred on this case. we want to hear first from you, you're encouraged, tell us why. >> friday morning was pretty hard because i got that letter,

it was released about his beating, but it was pretty encouraging to soon after get that statement from secretary kerry that he not only was demanding my husband to be treated at a hospital but he was actually for his release. jaime: immediate release. which has to give you the feeling that if iran listens perhaps they'll do that. the big concern i know is his medical condition. jordan, this is not a way that we allow prisoners to be treated, or imprisoned for their faith. what are the chances that he gets that help he needs? i saw when i was researching this he reports that he doesn't even recognize himself after those beatings. >> that was after only one month in prison. today actually marks exactly six months in prison for him. he was imprisoned, taken from his home under house arrest on september 26th. its been six months. after one month he couldn't recognize himself. they shaved his head, he had a long beard. his eyes were really dark.

he saw his reflection in an elevator. he was going to a nurse. she won't give him medicine because she felt he was unclean because he was a christian. we have the great statement from secretary kerry which we worked very hard to get, and now we are waiting, because he was told that he would get moved to a hospital. that has not hospitalized as of yesterday when the family was able to meet with him, his family that is still in iran. it's a very difficult situation and now it's time tone gauge the world. jaime: i want to hear about that visit. family members that saw him in the last couple of days. what do they tell you? >> yes, just that it was very shoerbgts but they were able to confirm that he has not been treated yet and his internal bleeding is pretty critical and needs to be -- even the doctors that examined him in prison mentioned he needs to be transferred to a hospital outside of the evan prison

immediately an has not been treated yet or been transferred yet. jaime: jordan, i'm trying to filling out, what does iran get out of this? >> the pressure is starting to get pretty tough on iran. we know that their ambassadors to the united nations are very concerned and that was before secretary kerry's statement and before last week's statement by our u.n. ambassador to the human rights council. we had back-to-back after silence from the state department's top officials we only got responses back to questions from their spokesperson we had the ambassador to the human rights council thursday and friday the statement from secretary kerry. before that we knew their ambassadors to the u.n. were already saying this needs to be reviewed. they were communicating that to the legal team in iran. so, the pressure is there, this is a critical time. we've done a lot of work to get to this point and everyone out there and all the times we've been on this is the key time to seize the moment and tell the

world, like secretary kerry did, the best option is for him to be released, we need to work on that and get this done as quick as possible. jaime: secretary kerry call for immediate release, actually. before we go can i ask as a wife and someone who thinks about her husband and what he's going through right now, what can average americans do to help get him home? >> well, he is a face of many faces, and my voice is one of the many of the percent kaoeutd christians all overt world. i think this has brought great awareness of the christian percen persecutions all over the world. and average americans can pray and bring awareness of what is happening to his situation and also the persecutions around the world. the iranian government -- unfortunately its normal what is happening to him. they consider christianity a

threat. jaime: we will try to turn that around, do everything that we can as you are to bring him home. thank you both for coming and telling us the very latest. >> thank you. bill: jenna lee standing by, "happening now" rolling our way in a short time here. how are you, jenna. jenna: two big terror cases making headlines today, what we learned and what we may have missed that is causing big news. also some new threats from north korea, just how seriously should we be taking all this sabr erat link as it's happening week after week? also a surprise move from the highest court in italy throwing out that acquittal of amanda knox. could she really nice a new trial? our legal panel is here. you see them in office buildings in schools, at gyms, there is disturbing news on a common medical device and whether or not they actually work when they are needed. the latest on that coming up on "happening now." bill: interesting stuff. we'll see you thefpblt he is $338 million richer before taxes. and if he is the guy he just

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jaime: a hooker was trapped for days under rocks and rescued by a man out walking his tkaufplgt the man was hiking when he slipped between rocks and fell. rescuers are saying he's only alive not because of the hiker who found him, because another hiker's dog, that dog stopped and led his owner right to where he cause. >> he bite my pants and pull me down and says -- you know.

when i went to see the hole the hole was like that big. but i don't know was a guy. it was dark, and it was nasty because he was digging the dirt and i see his big eyes and his face and i thought it was a bear. jaime: a happy ending for everybody. the hiker called 911. rescue crews were able to pull that man to safety. bill: a big may day for the father of five. the man you are about to meet says he is the winner of $338 million in a powerball jackpot. fox new york is in passaic, new jersey. >> he says he has been praying for financial relief for years. now his prayers have been answered. he is new jersey's newest multi-millionaire. he used a quick pick option to win the $338 million in the powerball jackpot. if he decides to take the money in wrong lump-sum he's looking at $150 million.

he has moved his family from their apartment to an undisclosed location while the media attention dies down. but those on scene who know him tell us this is a prize that is much deserved. he is an immigrant from the dominican republic who owns a small deli an is struggling to raise his five children. certainly this money will go a long way toward helping him raise his kids and give them a good life. as for exactly how he will use the money he doesn't yet know. he simply says he is grateful not to be poor any longer. bill: fox new york reporting there. now we await, sometimes they come forward and you're not quite sure, and it's never really official until the lottery folks hold that press conference. and they are something else to see, by the way. jaime: you brought up, it's happened before, people claim there it and they are not. but it's not us. bill: i don't have any reason not to believe them. i think the press conference are, when he comes out there and they award him that check and you see how his life will change forever it is something to see.

when that happens we'll bring it to you. jaime: absolutely it will be exciting either way. today is a historic day at the supreme court, taking up the issue of gay rights for the first time in ten years rulings that could redefine a family for all americans. we are live at the high court. great first gig! let's go! party! awwwww... arigato! we are outta here! party...... finding you the perfect place, every step of the way. hotels.com